Bentley Drummle
Bentley Drummle Drummle is a fellow student at Matthew Pockets whom Pip first meets in Chapter 23 not long after his arrival in London.
Bentley drummle. Bentley Drummle is one of Pips acquaintances in the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. The characterizations emphasized here are Wemmicks post-office mouth a sure sign he is in his London personality and the comparison of Bentley Drummle to Orlick Drummle is a higher-class Orlick both surly in temperament and always creeping in the shadows. Pocket when he was a head taller than that gentleman and half a dozen heads thicker than most gentlemen.
Bentley Drummle is best characterized as. A harried but unaffected Mr. Bentley Drummle Bentley Drummle studies with Pip.
Estellas decision to marry Bentley Drummle stuns everyone. Bentley Drummle When Pip meets Drummle he appears to be everything a gentleman should be - a baronet confident rich and stylish. The ill-fated matchup between Estella and Bentley Drummle puts Pips designs on hold for a while.
His death is a mystery. At dinner Pip observes that the Pockets servants wield greater power in the household than the Pockets themselves. In the book Drummle marries Estella but is an abusive husband.
Bentley Drummle although a minor character is incredibly significant in the lessons Pip learns about the importance or rather lack thereof of social status. Thus Bentley Drummle had come to Mr. Pocket shows Pip his room and introduces him to fellow students Bentley Drummle an heir to a baronetcy and Startop.
Drummle is of noble stock but he is also cruel and brutish. Drummle didnt say much but in his limited way he struck me as a sulky kind of fellow Pips thoughts page 202 This is one of the first passages in which Pip desciribes Drummle. The two separate and never reconcile.
The convict from the marshes kills him B. In 1970 QD Leavis suggests How We Must Read Great Expectations. Drummle knows he is a member.
Pip to Herbert page 328. He is however rude and cruel to all those he feels are beneath him and only fights for Estella to later abuse her. In Great Expectations Bentley Drummle dies in an accident involving a horse that he mistreated.
Jaggers actually likes Drummle well he is a shady lawyer but tells Pip to stay away from him. How does Bentley Drummle die. Suspicious of new ideas.
Mrs Pocket is distracted by Drummles being the next heir but one to a baronetcy Ch. That Drummle whose Christian name was Bentley was actually the next heir but one to a baronetcy page 202 I think that Drummles cruelity and meanness starts hear. So from this passage we know that from Pips first impression of Drummle is that he apprears grouchy and gloomy.
He is a wealthy heir to a baronetcy upper class according to the old system of inherited rank. Startop had been spoilt by a weak mother and kept at home when he ought to have been at school but he was devotedly attached to her and admired her beyond measure. Bentley Drummle is Pips lifelong nemesis.
Hes mean haughty and abrasive. 186 and Drummles aristocratic background allows him to behave rudely to people around him. She is insecure and angry that she has been left to care for Pip.
Drummle Bentley heavy in comprehension. He is quite the bachelor du jour Breeding bloodlines and. Pip is shocked and made miserable when Estella reveals her intention to.
Drummle is the perfect poster boy for wealth success and gentleman statuses.
